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(No Model.)

0. S. MARTINDALE.

FENCE.

No. 393,167. Patented Nov. 20,1888.

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UNITED STATES PATENT QEEIQE.

GONSTANTINE S. MARTINDALE, OF HARTFORD CITY, INDIANA, ASSIGNOR OFONE-HALF TO THEODORE CLAPPER, OF SAME PLACE.

FENCE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No.393,167, dated November20, 1888.

Application filed August 4, 1868. Serial No. 281,985. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may cmwern:

Be it known that I, OONSTANTINE S. MAR- TINDALE, a citizen of the UnitedStates, residing at Hartford City, in the county of Blackford and Stateof Indiana, have invented new and useful Improvements in Fences, ofwhich the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in fences; and it consists incertain novel features hereinafter first fully described, and thenspecifically claimed.

Figure l of the drawings represents a perspective view of a portion of afence embodying my improvements. Fig. 2 represents a vertical section ontheline mm of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 represents an enlarged detail view of theend of the fence, showing how the wire is wrapped around the rails andriders. Fig. dis a detail view showing the construction and arrangementof the brace-stake.

Referring to the drawings by letter, A A designate. the cross-stakes ofthe fence, the lower ends of which rest upon the ground, and B Bdesignate the riders, which have their ends I) tapered, lapped, andfitted together and seated in the upper forks, a, of thecrossbraces,where they are retained by the wire I), tied in figures ofeight around the tops of the crossed braces. The said loops and thewires forming the same are hereinafter more fully described. The ridersare placed in the upper forks, a, of the crossed stakcs,with their edges'1) downward, so that the stakes rest against the sides of the riders.

D D designate the top or base rails of the panel,which rails have theirends djnotched or cut away to provide the flat tongues (1, upon whichthe nnrcduced ends of the adjacent rails rest, thus forming a very firmand solid lapjoint between the rails. The upper edges, d", of the railsare inserted in the lower forks, a, of the cross-stakes A.

E E are the pancl-rails supported by the vertical bindin g-braces F,adjacent to the crossstakes, and the vertical strands of wire f,descending from and integral with the wire I). The said strands are tiedat their lower ends to the lower end of 'the corresponding braces, F,below the panel-rails by wire-loops f, so that the panels are supportedby said loops and strands.

G G are wire loops connecting the crossstakes of each pair, and passingbelow the top rails, D, and H H are wire loops connecting the braces Fand strands of wire f between the panel-rails.

I is a longitudinallyinclined brace-stake, which has its upper endbeveled on two sides, so that it will pass around in rear of thevertical brace F and rest against the adjacent crossfstake. The upperend of said bracestake is tied by the wire loop K to the crossbrace A onthe opposite side of the fence, the said wire K passing under the railD. The up per extremity of the brace-stake above the baserails issecured to the crossed stake on the opposite side of the fence by a wireloop, L, as shown.

The top rails, D, are notched and spliced in the lower forks of thecrossed braces A to keep the latter extended apart, and the riders Bperform the same function in the upper forks of the braces.

The braces I need not be connected with each panel, but may be situatedany proper distance apartas, for instance, in every third or fourthpanel.

The wires which form the figure-eight loops have their upper endswrapped or tied to the upper ends of the braces F. Thence they extendback and forth across the riders around the tops of the crossed braces,forming the figure eight around said tops, and one strand, f, isextended downward on the opposite side of the fence to the correspondingbrace, F, the lower end of the wire being looped or tied to said bracebelow the panelrails. Thus each strip of wood F and the correspondingwire-strand, 1'', support the adj oining panel from the top of the pairof crossed braces adjacent thereto, and the said panel is braced andstayed by the wire loops H, connecting the said strip and strand betweenthe panel-rails, and by the wire loops G, extending between the crossedbraces below the top rails, D.

It will be observed that my fence is very cheap and simple and strongand durable. The rails D being spliced, as shown and described, arepractically as firm and solid as one continuous rail. The brace-stakeresting against one of the crossed stakes and passing around in rear ofthe vertical brace effect ually prevents any endwise movement orsettling of the fence as it rests against and is secured t0 the stake,and also rests against two sides of the vertical brace. In practice thebase or top rails, D, are supported at the proper height by jacks, andnotched and fitted together,as shown. The stakes are then placed over oracross the splice of the rails and bound together by the wires, whichpass beneath the railsand thereby support the same. The jacks are thenremoved. The riders are next placed in the upper forks of the crossedstakes, and the long binding-wire has one end secured to the verticalbrace and passed across the riders and around the upper ends of thestakes and then allowed to hang past one side of the rails. The brace isthen swung downward to a verticalposition and the lower end of the wiresecured to the lower end of the brace, thereby drawing the wire tightlyaround the upper ends of the stakes. The panel-rails are next placed inposition and secured, their weight serving to draw thelong binding-wire,so that it will still more closely bind around the stakes and over theriders.

I am aware that it is not broadly new to construct stake-and-riderfences, and I make no broad claim thereto.

Having described my invention, I claim- As an improvement in fences, thecombination of the crossed stakes, the riders seated in the upper forksthereof and having their ends lapped together, the base-rails supportedin the lower forks of the stakes and having their ends lapped together,the vertical brace, the binding-wire having its upper end secured to theupper. end of the brace, and then passed back and forth over the ridersand around the upper ends of the stakes, and thence downward past therails on the side opposite the brace, and having its lower end securedto the lower end of the brace, the panel-rails, the loops passingbetween the panel-rails and securing the binding-wire to the verticalbrace,

the longitudinally-inclined brace-stake having its upper end beveled ontwo. sides to pass around the vertical brace and bear against one of thecrossed stakes, and the securingloops L K, passed respectively above andbelow the base-rails and passing around the inclined brace stake and oneof the crossed stakes, substantially as shown and described. Intestimony that I claim the foregoing as my own Ihave hereto affixed mysignature in presence of two witnesses.

OONSTANTINE S. MARTINDALE. Witnesses:

THEODORE GLAPPER, J AMES H. MOELDOWNEY.

